The story [from The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White] is sometimes eerie and eventually melodramatic, but it’s all so well done as to make for intense interest.
The Lady Vanishes
United Kingdom · 1938
1h 36m
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, May Whitty, Paul Lukas
Genre Mystery, Thriller
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When an avalanche blocks the railway, the passengers are forced to stay at a hotel in the fictional country of Bandrika. There, English tourist Iris Henderson befriends an elderly lady named Miss Froy. However, when the train is able to continue its journey, Iris wakes up to find that Miss Froy has disappeared.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Frank S. Nugent
If it were not so brilliant a melodrama, we should class it as a brilliant comedy.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
A pleasure.
The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson
It's typical Hitchcock: taut, morbid, stylish, and determined to confound expectations all the way up to the final shot.
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